Arkansas engineer wins round 3 of Project Jengo, and Cloudflare continues to win at the Patent Office
The latest winner of Cloudflare’s Project Jengo, along with some important case updates
The power of emoji: An interview with Jennifer Daniel
A conversation with Jennifer Daniel on the big impact of tiny pictures
20 of our favorite games + source code from Ludum Dare 50
20 of our favorite games plus source code from the latest Ludum Dare competition.
The ReadME Project Q&A: What you need to know about teaching technical skills
Teaching is a great way to not only help others but to better learn a topic yourself.
BellJar: A new framework for testing system recoverability at scale
Building infrastructure that can easily recover from outages, particularly outages involving adjacent infrastructure, too often becomes a murky exploration of nuanced fate-sharing between systems. Untangling dependencies and uncovering side effects of unavailability has historically been time-consuming work. A lack of great tooling built for this, and the rarity of infrastructure outages, makes re
Resilience, Flexibility And Immediacy: Working With Headless Systems — Smashing Magazine
When deploying websites, there’s rarely a one-size-fits-all solution. Some websites benefit from server-rendered pages, some prefer statically generating content upfront. In this article, Stefan explains how a CMS such as [Storyblok](https://www.storyblok.com/) can help you make your site more resilient without losing the flexibility to deliver time-relevant content.
Tracking shifts in Internet connectivity in Kherson, Ukraine
Over this past week, we observed an outage in the occupied city of Kherson, south Ukraine, coupled with an apparent shift in who controls the Internet within the region
Syntax Highlighting (and More!) With Prism on a Static Site
This post will show you how to implement syntax highlighting on a Next.js blog with the popular Prism.js library.
GitHub Availability Report: April 2022
In April, we experienced three distinct incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for Codespaces and GitHub Packages.
Software security starts with the developer: Securing developer accounts with 2FA
GitHub will require all users who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023.
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Delta: A highly available, strongly consistent storage service using chain replication
Over the years, Meta has invested in a number of storage service offerings that cater to different use cases and workload characteristics. Along the way, we’ve aimed to reduce and converge the systems in the storage space. At the same time, having a dedicated solution for critical package workload makes everyone happier. Having this in […]
Scaling Slack’s Mobile Codebases: Modernization
In the first two posts about the Duplo initiative, we described why we decided to revamp our mobile codebases, the initial phase to clean up tech debt, and our efforts to modularize our iOS and Android codebases (post 1, post 2). In this final post, we will discuss the last theme of the Duplo initiative,…
Designing A Perfect Language Selector UX — Smashing Magazine
How difficult can it be to design a bulletproof language selector? It’s not as straightforward as one might think. We need to avoid redirects, decouple our language and country presets, allow for overrides, and use non-modal windows. Can we fix it? Absolutely! We just need to decouple presets, allow for overrides and allow users to specify their intent.
The deluge of digital attacks against journalists
In Uruguay today, UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day Global Conference is underway, with a 2022 theme of “Journalism under Digital Siege.” It is a fitting and timely theme
Wildcard proxy for everyone
Today we’re announcing the availability of proxied wildcard DNS records on all plan levels
PostgreSQL 15: Using MERGE in SQL
Merge - UPDATED 2023 - a technical preview of how to merge lists with ease. Find out about a wonderful command - add power to your PostgreSQL.
You Don’t Need a UI Framework
As developers, it can be tempting to grab a pre-styled UI framework like Material UI or Bootstrap. Seems like a great way to outsource design and save a bunch of time, right? In my experience, this is an unrealistic expectation, and things don’t quite work out that way.
Sessions is back on May 24
Registration is open for Stripe Sessions—our annual user conference. Like last year, Sessions 2022 will be completely virtual, free to attend, and open to all.
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Cloudflare Relay Worker
We are excited to open source a Cloudflare Worker that will make notifications available to any communication service that has webhook integration by transforming a generic webhook response to any required format
Being friendly: Strategies for friendly fork management
This is the second and final post in a series describing friendly forks and alternative strategies for managing them.
How the Cinder JIT’s function inliner helps us optimize Instagram
Since Instagram runs one of the world’s largest deployments of the Django web framework, we have natural interest in finding ways to optimize Python so we can speed up our production application. As part of this effort, we’ve recently open-sourced Cinder, our Python runtime that is a fork of CPython. Cinder includes optimizations like immortal […]
A new way to survey potential fiber routes — without access to paved roads
Delivering on our vision for the metaverse will require us to reimagine a network infrastructure capable of supporting the computing platforms of the future. Although the metaverse is still a ways off, elements of it are already underway and we are already collaborating with telecommunications companies around the world to develop shared, open access optical […]